Searched for: department%3A%22Kavli%255C%252BInstitute%255C%252Bof%255C%252BNanoscience%22
(1 - 14 of 14)
document
Khosropanah, P. (author), Laauwen, W.M. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)
We have studied the sensitivity of a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer mixer integrated with a spiral antenna at 4.3 THz. Using hot/cold blackbody loads and a beam splitter all in vacuum, we measured a double sideband receiver noise temperature of 1300 K at the optimum local oscillator (LO) power of 330 nW, which is about 12 times the...
conference paper 2008
document
Khosropanah, P. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Laauwen, W.M. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)
We have studied the sensitivity of a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer mixer integrated with a spiral antenna at 4.3?THz. Using hot/cold blackbody loads and a beam splitter all in vacuum, we measured a double sideband receiver noise temperature of 1300?K at the optimum local oscillator (LO) power of 330?nW, which is about 12 times the...
journal article 2007
document
Khosropanah, P. (author), Laauwen, W.M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)
We have characterized a heterodyne receiver based on an NbN hot electron bolometer integrated with spiral antenna as mixer and an optically pumped FIR ring laser at 4.3 THz as local oscillator (LO). We succeeded in measuring the receiver output power, responding to the hot/cold load, as a function of bias voltage at optimum LO power. From the...
conference paper 2007
document
Gao, J.R. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Grishin, E. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author), Zorman, C.A. (author), Mehregany, M. (author)
The authors have realized NbN (100) nanofilms on a 3C-SiC (100)/Si(100) substrate by dc reactive magnetron sputtering at 800?°C. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is used to characterize the films, showing a monocrystalline structure and confirming epitaxial growth on the 3C-SiC layer. A film ranging in thickness from 3.4...
journal article 2007
document
Kooi, J.W. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Dieleman, P. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), De Lange, G. (author)
The intermediate frequency (IF) characteristics, the frequency dependent IF impedance, and the mixer conversion gain of a small area hot electron bolometer (HEB) have been measured and modeled. The device used is a twin slot antenna coupled NbN HEB mixer with a bridge area of 1×0.15??m2, and a critical temperature of 8.3?K. In the experiment the...
journal article 2007
document
Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Reker, S.F. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author)
We present a detailed experimental study of the direct detection effect in a small volume (0.15??m×1??m×3.5?nm) quasioptical NbN phonon cooled hot electron bolometer mixer at 673?GHz. We find that the small signal noise temperature, relevant for an astronomical observation, is 20% lower than the noise temperature obtained using 300 and 77?K...
journal article 2006
document
Hajenius, M. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Kooi, J.W. (author), Jellema, W. (author), Yang, Z.Q. (author)
We present a complete experimental characterization of a quasioptical twin-slot antenna coupled small area (1.0×0.15??m2) NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer compatible with currently available solid state tunable local oscillator (LO) sources. The required LO power absorbed in the HEB is analyzed in detail and equals only 25?nW. Due to the...
journal article 2006
document
Kooi, J.W. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Schieder, R. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author)
In this paper we discuss the stability of heterodyne terahertz receivers based on small volume NbN phonon cooled hot electron bolometers (HEBs). The stability of these receivers can be broken down in two parts: the intrinsic stability of the HEB mixer and the stability of the local oscillator (LO) signal injection scheme. Measurements show that...
journal article 2006
document
Barends, R. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)
We present a description of the current-voltage characteristics of hot electron bolometers in terms of the current-dependent intrinsic resistive transition of NbN films. We find that, by including this current dependence, we can correctly predict the complete current-voltage characteristics, showing excellent agreement with measurements for both...
journal article 2005
document
Gao, J.R. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Yang, Z.Q. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Adam, A.J.L. (author), Klaassen, T.O. (author), Williams, B.S. (author), Kumar, S. (author), Hu, Q. (author), Reno, J.L. (author)
We report the first demonstration of an all solid-state heterodyne receiver that can be used for high-resolution spectroscopy above 2?THz suitable for space-based observatories. The receiver uses a NbN superconducting hot-electron bolometer as mixer and a quantum cascade laser operating at 2.8?THz as local oscillator. We measure a double...
journal article 2005
document
Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Reker, S.F. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Vachtomin, Y. (author), Maslennikov, S. (author), Antipov, S. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author)
We measure the direct detection effect in a small volume (0.15??m×1??m×3.5?nm) quasioptical NbN phonon cooled hot electron bolometer mixer at 1.6?THz. We find that the small signal sensitivity of the receiver is underestimated by 35% due to the direct detection effect and that the optimal operating point is shifted to higher bias voltages when...
journal article 2005
document
Baselmans, J. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J. (author), De Korte, P. (author), Klapwijk, T. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author)
NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixers are at this moment the best heterodyne detectors for frequencies above 1 THz. However, the fabrication procedure of these devices is such that the quality of the interface between the NbN superconducting film and the contact structure is not under good control. This results in a contact resistance between...
conference paper 2004
document
Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Barends, R. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author)
Improved and reproducible heterodyne mixing (noise temperatures of 950 K at 2.5 THz) has been realized with NbN based hot-electron superconducting devices with low contact resistances. A distributed temperature numerical model of the NbN bridge, based on a local electron and a phonon temperature, has been used to understand the physical...
conference paper 2004
document
Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Hajenius, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), De Korte, P.A.J. (author), Voronov, B. (author), Gol'tsman, G. (author)
We demonstrate that the performance of NbN lattice cooled hot electron bolometer mixers depends strongly on the interface quality between the bolometer and the contact structure. We show experimentally that both the receiver noise temperature and the gain bandwidth can be improved by more than a factor of 2 by cleaning the interface and adding...
journal article 2004
Searched for: department%3A%22Kavli%255C%252BInstitute%255C%252Bof%255C%252BNanoscience%22
(1 - 14 of 14)